AOL Results

seeing varied results

[dvb_99]

Although, I am facing this for the 1st time but i am sure that you all must have seen this happen before.

I was browsing thru AOL and typed in a specific keyword for which i could see my sites in AOL thru I.E. and other browsers...

but when i logged in from an AOL account and thru AOL dial up service when i typed in the same keyword..my sites don't even exist...

are there 2 different database for dial up service and thru any other regular browser...

It would be great if somebody can help me solve this confusion

Thanks in advance!! :)

[keyplyr]

Well there are at least two DBs for AOL: [aolsearch.aol.com...] and [search.aol.com...]

While they both include Inktomi listings, they run on distinctly different algorithems so it makes sence that results on one would differ from the other.

[dvb_99]

Thanks keyplyr! :)

But i was wondering what is the different algo that they have? They both are AOL search, why would they alter their algo for both search results?

[eljefe3]

When I'm traveling outside of the U.S. I see quite different resutlts that I think are based on ip. When I use a dial-up from out of the country, I seem to get Ink's ultraspam database. When I check the results via a U.S. based proxy server, it seems to show Ink's BOW results.

[ken_b]

>> results... differ

Hmmm.... I just tried the 2 aol search urls that keyplyr posted.

On the first one my site came up number 45, on the second it came up number 5.

I choose search url number 2.